Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!1.us.feeder.erje.net!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.cellular-phone-tech Subject: Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:49:59 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <201703291311387217-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> <57YCA.231023$XG2.99115@fx08.iad> <88%CA.259440$IM7.14144@fx39.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:405690 sci.physics:626582 alt.privacy.anon-server:58393 comp.sys.mac.system:103439 alt.comp.os.windows-10:37941 alt.cellular-phone-tech:359 On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 04:53:56 +0100, Mark Lloyd wrote: > On 04/02/2017 02:12 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: > > [snip] > >>> That reminds me of the "South Park" show where the (young) workers at a >>> cigarette factory were saying "You might get cancer when you're 80 but >>> who the hell wants to be 90 anyway". Not the way you'd feel when you're >>> 80 already. >> >> A short happy life is better than a long dull one. >> > > You have not yet shown anything "happy" about a stinky fire hazard that > causes cancer. CAN cause cancer, at the choice of the smoker, who is clearly enjoying the immediate effects of it. It's why they smoke. > Also, I have been in a cancer treatment facility, and many of the > patients had lung cancer. Some of them had to breathe through holes in > their throats. Most of these people were not that old. You see the few with problems, most don't have problems. Anyway it was THEIR choice. -- 19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that christmas decorations were chocolate.